The Gospel According to Big Tech
Gregory Aimar
Librinova, 110 p. €14.90
Grégory Aimar, journalist and writer, signs here a manifesto which takes up the codes of the genre: strong convictions, supported by the precise analysis of certain facts and the desire to awaken consciences. All this is in this well-written book, including some assertions more enthusiastic than demonstrative, the whole being carried by the will “to illuminate the spiritual issues of the current technological revolution”. Because for the author, current developments in technology are not a simple race forward in technology. There is unfolding a form of spiritual design or at least new beliefs, where the finitude of man and his dependence on God would be the last two barriers of the old world which is falling. “On the one hand, humanity is destroying the environment that keeps it alive and, on the other, (…) she devotes all her energy to becoming immortal. Humanity is tossing its future with a coin where one side is denial and the other is illusion. » How better to express the obvious irony of the title?
An educator, the author describes what new technologies, specifically Artificial Intelligence, deploy as know-how and as commercial offers which promise, for example, to keep alive the souls of the deceased… Faced with the wave, Grégory Aimar, throughout his warnings, asserts that “the true progress of humanity will not be to think faster with our heads but to think better with our hearts”. Convincing? Yes. Sufficient ?
